A 'comeback' after 6,000 years of extinction

from Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

A tiny possum with an extremely long finger and a new kind of gliding marsupial have been identified in West Papua. The two species were only previously known in Western science from the fossil record.

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